Joogleberry Playhouse, Manchester Street, Brighton, Monday May 17

Diva Eve reckons "people don't expect Germans to have a sense of humour".

But perhaps it would be fairer to say that, coming from the land of the frankfurter, we don't expect this sense of humour to take the form of an obsession with vegetables.

Nevertheless, this seems to be Eve's prerogative in a quirky one-woman show of song, dance, tribute and stand-up which promises "entertainment that will be stronger than your vitamin boost".

"To peel away the layers of confusion," she explains, "the show's kind of taking the pea out of The Vagina Monologues.

"If Eve Ensler can ask 200 women about their relationship with their vagina, why can't I ask 200 vegetables about their relationship with their private bits?"

We remain confused.

"I do a group meditation to connect people to their inner vegetable - their inner bean," she continues.

Mmm, still confused.

"And I have a leek that becomes a whip - the leek being the absolutely essential accessory for the female vegetarian dominatrix. It's a little one but it's quite powerful and, when I sing Madonna's Like A Virgin, I hit my bum with it."

Ah, now we get you.

Eve's singing career began, very continentally, when she and a schoolfriend got on their bicycles and went on a tour of Germany, France and Switzerland.

"We sang on the streets at every town we came to", she says, "and after that, I got signed with Sony."

Eve released five albums on the label but the pop-star template proved a little too restrictive for this multi-talented Diva - if anything because she just can't resist mocking the pop world.

In between the stuff with the leek, she will be talking about Geri Halliwell ("I love her, she makes me realise there's a lot of problems that I don't have") Simon Cowell, and the whole Britney and Madonna thing and "yes, there might be impressions".

Things do, Eve says, "get pretty steamy", though she insists there'll be "no meat on display here".

"I'm a performer who loves to sing, to dance, to write songs and to make jokes", she continues.

"In Germany, we call it cabaret but when you say that in this country, people get the wrong idea.

"My show is like a salad with an exotic dressing - English people think cabaret is all about un-dressing."

Eve has entertained audiences around the world from Thailand to New York City but she says she's most at home in Brighton, where she has lived for the last two and a half years.

"You go to pubs in London and they just drink beer and eat meat", she laughs, "they don't like you talking about carrots.

"In Brighton it's much easier because Brighton people are more evolved in the vegetable scene. Brighton has changed me - I've become a Brighton housewife: Yoga, meditation and learning how to cook."

But Eve has a confession to make: "I discovered Hitler was a vegetarian so now I've started eating meat - for political reasons, of course."

Having heard her answerphone message I can confirm that this dietary shift has had no negative effect on the quality of her singing voice.

Though I can't say the same for her sanity.

Joogleberry Playhouse, £8/£6, 9pm, 01273 709709